acceptor
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
acceptor (plural acceptors)
- One who accepts.
- (legal, commerce) One who accepts a draft or a bill of exchange; a drawee after he has accepted.
- (chemistry) An atom or molecule which can accept an electron to form a chemical bond.
- (biochemistry) A transfer RNA molecule that can accept a specific amino acid
- (physics) A chemical acceptor atom forming a positive hole in a semiconductor
- (physiology) A cluster of skin cells that respond to pain
- (comptheory) A kind of finite-state machine whose binary output indicates whether or not a received input was accepted.
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